all three broadcast live video for your media project free video down to r.t. dot com the. badge of peace for a region in turmoil the e.u. is set to receive its nobel prize hundreds of protesters joined the voices saying it doesn't deserve the award. egypt's opposition calls for more protests across the country after rejecting the referendum on a new islamist based constitution. ruling regime and the opposition in bahrain say they're ready to sit at the negotiating table but many believe their divisions run too deep to end a twenty month uprising. on air and online twenty four hours a day this is r.t. the european union's three presidents are in oslo to receive this year's nobel

peace prize on behalf of the group he's been given to commend the e.u. for fostering peace but not everyone agrees hundreds marched through the norwegian capital in protest because all of the looks at why many believe the e.u. doesn't deserve the prize and why the whole nobel institution may need to rethink. mark. one day i live in a nation where they will not be deterred by the call about them but by the content of back. the one it can be probably would have become a glorious. however the nobel peace prize is only awarded to a living person this is when it tastes trying to especially when it comes to finances the announcement the european union was to pick up the twenty twelve gongs sparked heated debate has been discredited particularly to the outrage that he's

picked it up recently well to be frank inside the united states i don't think very many people pay attention to the nobel peace prize anymore large numbers of americans were stunned when yasser arafat received the nobel peace prize many years ago president obama was given a prize for reasons that no one understood see what's. done over the last twelve months to convince the nobel committee it's with the of such a prestigious award. it supported regime change in foreign countries and several member states indulged in violent crackdowns on demonstrate is outraged by the failure of the government's. skeptics. think it devalues the whole concept of the peace prize and what's really happening is that the european union is having its worst year ever at its mates and the international community coming to it's a brit to have been awarded of the announcement to be made in the very week that i

went to athens i was greeted not just by tens of thousands of protesters but people dressed up in swastikas and giving it. frankly i grew up in a europe that was divided from east to west and i'm now living in a europe that is divided from north to south and never at any point in the history of this union has there been. more discord that we've already got among more moderate forces there are concerns the peace prize is being used as a political football i think this award basically does a lot kind of discredit past people who've won this prize i mean it demonstrates a sort of heavy politicization of the use of this award i know it's been suggested that this year's winner of the peace prize picked it up more for not having done something as opposed to having food peace around the globe it seems like they got the prize more because there hasn't been any war in europe for many decades rather than having done anything specific i think as long as civic institutions like the

nobel prize continue to lose their legitimacy in their spirit through political favoritism and these prizes are always political but obvious political favoritism and maneuvering i think it actually takes something away and i think it's actually damaging leaves the whole institution of the prize facing the question whether the nobility is the drain from the down peter all of us are to. but with the e.u. mired in the economic strife the scene is far from peaceful with the protests and riots across the continent business professor and independent investment fund manager says the use policies have brought disorder. it's probably some kind of official ideology supported here see ideology that this year or has brought peace which it hasn't has brought unrest in the european idea as such is certainly one of the certainly brought peace or state isn't in western europe and beyond but not

this year or not the official policies we're pursuing right now they have nothing to do was peace and maybe it's just a way to mislead people in the populace about the process how can you war on such a prize to an institution i mean if you're the want it maybe you should of water to the originators of the idea of european unification arda no one should monitor gaspari and so on and so was the goal they had a vision put forth and they said it's a work but how could you really. want a prize for an institution that really doesn't have a vision that it's about in its words crisis of legitimacy in the decades and i guess it's just a maneuver to really give it a house on the shoulder. but celso in an unstable situation the european markets as it is technocrat leader says his time in office will soon be up later with what's in store for the ailing euro zone seemingly no way out of the crisis.

egypt's military has taken over the country's security and the seeming powers of arrest in the run up to the referendum last week's vote has been rejected by the opposition as under for sensitive because to stage a massive nationwide protest getting louder present merci has tried to make some concessions but not ease the tension as journalist bocce reports now from cairo. this morning president mohamed morsi. on the decision to increase tax burdens on the country is a sales tax on consumer goods and services this is seen to be quite popular for him in the face of much to sense the increased tax burdens were supposed to be part of i.m.f. loan international monetary fund loan or point eight billion dollars loan the country's been trying to secure recently definitely reducing these tax burdens will perhaps make it more popular among the streets however yesterday of course the national salvation front become

a nation of opposition forces going in many of these protests and it's. completely reject the concept of referendum set to be next week and it calls for protests they say the constitution will only enforce a presidential dictatorship and then it's. key social economic demands as well as big state of the country. by islamist dominated constituent assembly to here in cairo was really expecting big crowds on choose day against the president. raised by a new coalition of islamic forces that forced the president on tuesday they said they want to have a million people on the streets in support of the president of course with the background of violence on wednesday between rival protest groups right here at the presidential palace which bloody scenes in the streets of cairo that she reasons we've now been told the president has also been a tree to step in and secure the nation in addition to giving powers to arrest

citizens this has been met with much criticism from the protesters who feel that the military will take a heavy hand this comes off the minute you. egypt hosni mubarak stepped down last last year which witnessed quite a heavy and bloody crackdown on protesters in the last between the transition period last night at the protest in front of the presidential palace protesting screens for teach all. minute chinese human rights violations towards protesters on the screens of the president the president on the wars in the presidential palace they said to remind people of what the military capable of right now the republican guard still have their tanks outside their policy have erected twelve barriers which the protesters defined as to push through and that is still a sign that maybe we'll see more tanks on the streets as that dissent continues in the lead up to this controversial referendum. the u.s. has so far remained silent on egypt's draft constitution even though it's being

criticised for undermining basic freedoms the geopolitical analyst with him and says that washington is secretly supporting the muslim brotherhood to turn egypt into an islamic dictatorship if you have the brotherhood which is being supported by the state department in the obama administration as it has an analogous to create a if you will an islamic dictatorship in egypt but they're pushing a block a gender a secret agenda much much like. masonry organization the secret societies where the triads of the the. they were pushing an agenda on the population and the population rightly so much was gone and i think this is the coptic christian groups are threatened if the book brotherhood gets its constitution and imposing sharia law for. other groups of muslims for example salafi places of worship are under attack in egypt and likely will be increasing its will and this is

probably one of the most major. intelligence projects of the last fifty years since the us government support of the muslim brotherhood to create islamic fascist regime if you want to use that term across the islamic world across the muslim world from afghanistan down through turkey into saudi arabia qatar and of course egypt. but one of the tips main opposition leaders and former head of the arab league says most is the regime is failing to fulfill the nation's hopes for change or deal with its major economic problems. the change that we want the people hoped for dealing with. the services education and the rest of the fides pertaining to the life objections have not produced anything new fifty percent of the country lives in poverty the illiteracy the that unemployment the

problems that have not been addressed until this moment this is the point that one many of us as citizens i was liberals as nationalists believe that. we are losing time we should not have this stand still kind of policy we have to move on let us move together the vision of dividing the country dividing the people dividing the public opinion is not in our interest. is full interview with egyptian opposition leader i'm in most areas on the air later today at six forty five pm g.m.t. . but while one country struggles with the outcome of its reformation another still caught up in an upright spine member of the pope and the prospect of talks in bahrain the deep divisions between the opposition and the ruling family could prove to be to overcome as we report shortly. drawing its own red line

israel's fears that syria's chemical weapons could end up in the bitter enemies hands that after the break. well let's look for science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got those huge earth covered.

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you. been trying all t. arabic to find out more visit our big teeth don't call. for international stories for you now the western warnings are circling of a serious chemical. weapons there by israel has another worry its mind and the ass know it could get in the hands of his bluff of israel such arms being controlled by what it considers to be a terrorist group would be a red line where countries agents are said to be operating in syria to track and possibly samatar stocks well i've now to marcus papadopoulos editor of politics

first magazine he joins us from london thank you for joining us here on r.t. how real is the threat of chemical weapons ending up in the hands of militants or terror groups do you think. when of course in the event of the syrian army sorry in a sense in those regions of syria where the chemical weapons assault then yes it's a there's a very strong possibility that the syrian militants could very well a chemical weapons which of course would be catastrophic not just for syria but for the entire region it might be an inconvenient truth to many was western politicians and western journalists but of course the islamists in syria who are largely representative of the militants they wouldn't hesitate to use them against syria's minorities the alawite the christians or the jews or indeed even the kurds and they certainly wouldn't hesitate to use them against israel so there is that very important to stop the flow through the constant flow of weapons and cash into

syria by certain western states and turkey saudi arabia and qatar if you mention israel there and there recently there have been several red lion warnings coming from israel that the hezbollah are syria and iran what could be behind this war rhetoric. well of course israel has a legitimate concern and rightly so one need warning about chemical weapons falling into the wrong hands of course their main in overwhelmingly the militants in syria the israelis and not concerned that the syrian government would use chemical weapons against issue out there. we are very concerned that the militants in syria would use them if they acquired them and that's why if the west is not going to listen to the syrian government then it should certainly should listen to the concerns of issue zero what we're talking about the rest of the u.s. and its allies are adamant that asaad must go wouldn't removing the syrian

government or increase the chances of chemical weapons perhaps ending up in the wrong hands well of course president assad being removed from power is not a policy it's an emotional statement it's an emotional statement that western countries have been put in now for the last two years. you know should president assad and his government fall from power the whole infrastructure of syria will collapse when a government falls from power in wartime everything collapses society collapses and in the events of that happen in then once again yes there's a very realistic possibility that the militants in syria could acquire chemical weapons and of course who would be responsible for that it would be those countries around the world in particular in the region turkey saudi arabia qatar and certain western countries that are doing absolutely everything they can at the moment to weaken the syrian government and this proof of chemical threat is that an excuse

for military intervention. well of course the west's interest in the conflict in syria isn't guided by democracy all of lore. it's guided by west by geo strategic objectives if it was if it was if it was concerned by shimon rights and democracy and the west would not have such a close relationship ship to saudi arabia which arguably has the most repressive rigid system in the world but i think yes we should be on guard it could be a pretext that but the west issues in concert believe america to intervene in syria i still think western military intervention is only is probably not going to happen but we should be on guard of course they did it in kosovo where they claimed one hundred thousand cars and airplanes being diverted by certain forces that never happens they claimed in the run up to the invasion of iraq the reasons for going in iraq had weapons of mass destruction nothing was found intervene in libya colonel

gadhafi forces we were told were going to slaughter. thousands and thousands of libyan civilians there was never any evidence for that so yes it could be a pretext but i think which is they'll be cautious that the west is probably not going to militarily intervene in syria ok we'll leave it there marcus papadopoulos editor of politics first magazine thank you thank you. well the twenty month uprising in the bahrain there could be heading for some kind of resolution both the opposition and the ruling regime say they're ready for a face to face talks without preconditions but as reports their divisions might run too deep for any lasting peace. sadiq says his life was shattered his sits on a municipal council in bahrain and several months ago he was shot by police during a peaceful protest out looking at his injuries his lucky to be alive part of an on

line what i was with many of the protesters when we were faced by riot police they did not hesitate to shoot us directly to the head with the bullets the police are using are for hunting birds and animals i've been shot at over one hundred ninety two helots that's got it all over my body in the head face arms and legs the most dangerous ones are those inside my lungs. is just one of hundreds who have suffered in the anti-government protests that started around twenty months ago when revolution fever was sweeping the middle east and north africa the descent in bahrain differs little from that in nation swept by the arab spring but the story never stopped it is a belief in different areas against the regime against that because the church of against the situation the one thousand five hundred present abs we have. every day we have a lot of. security forces surrounding the areas attacking the people at that

house and given the outcome of the arab spring of evils bahrain's ruling elite is doing its best to stamp out revolt the government recently slapped a ban on public gatherings bahrain's chief of police says it's not permanent but it is necessary we have introduced a temporary restriction on gatherings and protests and that is. one reason because lately we have seen that these gatherings and protests have been taking more violent. methods and one year we had over four hundred protests in bahrain that's more than one protest but today and we have tried to solve the problem however they didn't seem to be able to control protests and the gatherings despite the ban and the risk of arrest people are still gathering the hard core of the protest comes from poor neighborhoods as soon as we reached one we needed he encountered a small in peace who anti-government so roundly. some

a simple salute to estimate how many people are actually taking part in protests no men in bahrain fact is that these protesters are being supported by the local shia community which make up to seventy percent of this country's population. the ruling elite are sunni muslims and this may look like a sectarian war but the authorities firmly reject their actions are religiously motivated there is a radical movement in the opposition party they are hardliners they want to see regime change they want to implement their own style of government they seek a secretary in theocracy and that is unacceptable so all because i feel out of desperation they know that they don't have the support of the rest of the population of bahrain they have turned to these violent means the protests are gathering momentum and allegations of torture in prisons are leading to serious international pressure being put on. so bahrain's rulers find themselves in

a tough position they want dialogue with dissenters but the question is whether they will be satisfied with what the king has to offer let's see risky r.t. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. and online for you right now video clamp down in iran which is it's a sharing website to challenge you to keep updating their websites content in. procrit. also online moscow prepares to approve of this stuff americans accused of human rights violations response to washington's magnitsky bill using russians on the same. there's an arrest on the market so after italy's that technocrat prime minister mario monti announced his plans to leave former pm so they are both scary has thrown his hat into the ring again after he withdrew his party's support for the government and monti says he'll go after next year's budget is passed which could see an election in february which is expected once where the greek prime

minister is trying to secure more support from germany's a wealthy and conservative region of the very early at greece's creditors agreed to prop it up with another forty four billion euros greek attorney all of afghanistan means real solutions are still a long way off. so most guys me loose don't. listen to music. but unfortunately generally know in the reluctant butte it is not easy to. control just that you go to example even to the. national military fund. as such they know. that but of course it's real easy for the smirk you do so so what will you say to the german taxpayers so we're going to tell you this simple you serious are usually more of more cell phone for people with.

and there was some other news making headlines at this hour a taliban assault on a police station in northwestern pakistan has left at least eight people dead three attackers reportedly fired rockets and grenades in a battle lasting over an hour to insurgents detonated suicide vests during the crash the local taliban say the attack was to avenge the death of a relative of their former commander. in earthquake has hit the philippines which is already trying to recover from the devastation wrought on by a deadly typhoon and their reports yet of injuries or damage to the five point six magnitude tremor maybe a thousand people are still missing following last week's cycle are survivors in the worst hit areas are suffering severe food shortages landslides and flash floods killed more than six hundred people four hundred thousand. a prominent female official responsible for women's affairs has been assassinated in afghanistan she was shot dead by two unidentified men while on her way to work it comes just months

after her female predecessor was killed in a bomb attack. says it won't give an inch of palestinian land to israel during his visit to gaza the group's political leader michele refused to recognize the jewish state's legitimacy with israel rejecting international calls to end its settlement expansion will join this ticket in the east as the standoff between the two will continue. really public opinion. doesn't seem to be. very troubled by the u.n. resolution and by the fact that israel saw isolated there and also about the government is known as the united states continues to support and to becky's. the concern is. less big bureau the state in the last vote in the un but steve israel feels that europe is supporting basically

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